Associate Researcher - European Policies Research Centre (EPRC), University of Strathclyde
Dr Neculai Cristian Surubaru's Recognition (41)
Project 668 - Co-founder and Editor
Member of Governance and Policy Working Group at the Shrub Co-operative (Edinburgh)
Main co-Convener, panel chair and speaker – “The East-West divide – growing tensions in the EU?”, Online academic Symposium, December 2020
Panel co-convener – “Bulgaria and Romania: 10 Years of European Union Membership. Any Improvements?”, 46th UACES annual conference
Panel organiser and contributor - “EU performance in Central and Eastern Europe: Internal / External performance” UACES 43rd annual conference
Co-initiator and main organizer of “Eurosfat” - 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 7th editions of the Romanian European affairs forum
Main organizer, “The Common Strategic Framework-adding value to rural development?”, high-level policy debate, European Parliament, Brussels
Invited panel speaker – ‘East-West Divide in the EU’ - Association for International Affairs (AMO, Prague)
Invited panel speaker, “EuroImpact - Information and improvement of Communication of European Union Cohesion Policy – the role of academia and civil society”, European Institute of Romania (IER)
Invited speaker at the EIBURS workshop “Administrative capacity-building and Cohesion Policy”, organized by the European Policies Research Centre (EPRC), University of Strathclyde
Invited panel speaker - 2nd joint EU Cohesion Policy Conference, “Challenges for the New Cohesion Policy 2014-2020. An academic and policy debate”, Riga, Latvia
Master class in European Cohesion Policy, organized by the Regional Studies Association and the European Commission, Brussels, Belgium
Certified Project Manager on “Implementing European funded projects in the area of human resources, administrative capacity and technical assistance”, accredited course organized by Archidata & Structural Consulting Group, Romania
Maastricht Working on Europe (MWOE), Postdoctoral fellowship
Charlemagne Youth Prize (2014) finalist and winner of Europe needs you 4 Job Creation (2014) for Project 668
Loughborough University Graduate School Fellowship
University of Bucharest social scholarship and academic excellence scholarship
Co-lead ENU's response to the UK Parliament's Horizon Scanning Exercise on Climate, Energy and Net Zero
2024 - 2024
Recognition Type Advisory panels and expert committees or witness Description Have co-lead together with Dr Inge Panneels (SCEBE), Edinburgh Napier University's contribution to developing a list of ten research topics for future government prioritisation in the area of Climate, Energy and Net Zero.
This involved coordinating the responses from other ENU colleagues, drafting several topics, and submitting the ten priorities in the system managed by the UK Parliament’s Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST).Research Themes Environment Org Units University
Guest (online) speaker and facilitator for Brussels based policy and stakeholders panel
2024 - 2024
Recognition Type Invited Speaker Description Intervening and discussing key messages for a Brussels based seminar attended by European, national, and local policymakers and stakeholders on the "Ex post evaluation of Cohesion policy programmes 2014-2020 financed by the ERDF and CF. Work package 10 – Institutional capacity and reforms". Research Areas Governance Research Themes Culture and Communities Org Units Business School